Theresa Harrington Brandt

This document outlines the 2025-2026 LCAP Goals for Mt. Diablo Unified, focusing on providing a high-quality education in a safe environment, ensuring highly qualified and culturally proficient staff, fostering strong family and community partnerships, and implementing culturally responsive practices for focal scholars. Key strategic priorities include improving attendance and graduation rates at specific high schools. The document also details how performance levels are determined and reported using the 2025 California School Dashboard, covering state and local indicators such as English Language Arts, Math, English Learner Progress, College/Career Readiness, Chronic Absenteeism, Graduation Rates, and Suspension Rates.

This document outlines the Mt. Diablo Unified School District's Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP), a three-year plan designed to support positive student outcomes and address state and local priorities. Key goals include providing a high-quality education in a safe and welcoming environment with rigorous instruction for college and career readiness, ensuring highly qualified and culturally proficient staff, empowering families and community as partners, implementing culturally responsive practices for focal scholars, and increasing attendance and graduation rates at specific high schools by June 2026.

The Parent Advisory Committee meeting included a review of the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) and a discussion on the state of the district, including the implementation of fall break to address student mental health concerns, the Career Fair held at Concord High School, and the College Fair at Ygnacio Valley High School. Test scores were reviewed, and information was shared about a tentative agreement with the teacher's union, which may involve future reductions in district provisions. Additionally, there was a discussion about centralized enrollment, intradistrict and interdistrict transfers, and attendance reporting.

The meeting included an overview of the California School Dashboard, focusing on its shift to a more comprehensive, equity-focused system. District administrators will conduct instructional walkthroughs across nine schools to assess professional development priorities. The district's emergency call data was reviewed, highlighting incidents involving mental health and self-harm concerns. Strategic Support and MTSS teams collaborate to ensure students receive appropriate academic, behavioral, and social-emotional support using a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS). School counselors implement comprehensive counseling programs, and Restorative Practices promote connection, respect, and community building. The MDUSD operates after-school programs across multiple locations, offering academic support, SEL activities, and more.

This Strategic Technology Plan for Mt. Diablo Unified School District is a learning plan, empowered by technology, designed to achieve equitable, student-centered learning and prepare students for 21st-century careers, college, and life. It focuses on seven key goals: fostering modern learning and teaching, ensuring equitable access to technology, providing professional and timely support, establishing robust network infrastructure and operations, maintaining comprehensive cybersecurity and data privacy, ensuring sustainability of technology acquisitions, and implementing effective technology governance, continuous improvement, and communication.